Middle Gate

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    The exhibition project Middle Gate II – The Story of Dymphna is a collaboration between M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp) and the cultural centre de Werft in Geel. Middle Gate II is the follow up to the exhibition Middle Gate, curated by Jan Hoet in Geel in 2013. The exhibition concept is closely tied to the legend of the holy Dymphna, saint of the possessed, the mentally ill and patroness against epilepsy and insanity. The legend of Dymphna shares a strong connection to the identity of Geel, "the charitable city".

    Aslan Ġoisum

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    Image : (c) M HKA, Courtesy of the Artist and KROMUS+ZINK, Berlin
    People of No Consequence, 2016
    Aslan Ġoisum
    Video , 00:07:46
    full HD, Colour video, sound

    From 23 February to 9 March 1944 the entire Chechen and Ingush nations, about half a million people, were deported to Central Asia by the Soviet authorities.

    They were accused of having collaborated with Nazi Germany. The same thing was done to many other nations of the USSR.

    Almost half of all Chechens perished in the deportation. Survivors were allowed to return home only in 1957, four years after Stalin’s death.

    119 of those survivors gathered, for the first time, in April 2016. The youngest was one month old at the end of February 1944.

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